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The purpose of this encyclopedia is to trace, document, and promote the development of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]], the newly emerging empirical science of scientific change. It pursues three major goals:
# Outline with encyclopedic rigor ''the current state'' of the views of the scientonomy community concerning the mechanism of scientific change, including changes in both [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]] of their evaluation.# Trace and document ''all changes'' in the field of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]], as they are proposed and [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] by the scientonomic scientonomy community.
# List and outline ''the open questions'' concerning the theory and the process of scientific change and thus assist with future research in the field.
The encyclopedia was established in 2016 by the [[Community:Scientonomy|scientonomic scientonomy community]]. Its current editors in-chief are [[Paul Patton]] and [[Hakob Barseghyan]].
==Workflow==
* '''Pose Questions:''' The goal of this stage is to scrutinize the current state of the scientonomic theory and our knowledge of scientific change and identify as many open questions as possible. The annual [[Scientonomy Seminar|seminar on scientonomy]] hosted by the University of Toronto's [http://hps.utoronto.ca/ Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology] is currently the main venue facilitating this stage of the workflow.
* '''Suggest Modifications:''' The goal of this stage is to advance the scientonomic theory and our knowledge of scientific change by proposing modifications to the theoryour current body of knowledge. These suggested modifications are published and properly documented. In These modifications are currently published in the [[Journal of Scientonomy]] but, in principle, these modifications they can be published in any journal which uses makes use of the scientonomic mechanism of modifications. At the moment, there Once a modification is only one such journalpublished, [[Journal of Scientonomy]]. This this encyclopedia documents each that [[:Category:Modification|suggested modificationsuggestions]]and invites experts to review it.
* '''Evaluate Modifications:''' The goal of this stage is to assess the suggested modifications and decide which of them are acceptable and which are not. This is done by [[Community:Scientonomy|the community of scientonomists]] on the respective discussion pages of this encyclopedia. If a consensus emerges, the fate of the modification is documented. If a modification causes disagreement among scientonomists, it becomes a topic of discussion during [[Scientonomy Workshop|scientonomic workshops]], which aim at bridging the gaps between opposing parties and arriving at consensus.
* '''Document Changes:''' The goal of this stage is to document all the changes in our communal body of knowledge of scientific change. If a modification is considered acceptable by the community, then the respective articles of this encyclopedia are modified to reflect that change. If a modification is considered unacceptable, then the respective verdict is documented for that modification.
The primary role of this encyclopedia in the scientonomic workflow is to document the current state of scientonomic knowledge, trace all suggested modifications, and list open questions.
This workflow gives researchers a simple way of knowing where the community stands on different topics, i.e. what theories it currently accepts, what open questions it tries to answer, what modifications have been proposed and how they have been assessed. It ensures that our communal knowledge is advanced in a ''piecemeal'' and ''transparent'' fashion:
* '''Piecemeal''': modification modifications to the communal mosaic are suggested one by one, which allows for a sober critical evaluation of these changes suggestions by the community.* '''Transparent ''': suggested modifications and their evaluations are properly documented, so that there is no mystery as to whether, when, or why a certain modification was or wasn't accepted.
==Semantic Approach==
